Principal Financial Analyst, OCI Storage

** Job Description*
* ** Principal Financial Analyst - OCI Storage*
* ** ABOUT THE JOB*
* Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is one of the fastest growing and most strategic businesses at Oracle, powering the next generation of enterprise, cloud-native, and AI workloads. Within OCI Finance, the Workload Health team plays a critical role in shaping the financial strategy and performance of the business-partnering directly with Product and Engineering leaders to drive efficient, scalable growth.

This role is a key partner to the Storage product and engineering organizations. As part of the IaaS Workload Health team, you will support end-to-end financial ownership, delivering insights that influence product strategy, investment decisions, and operational efficiency. You'll operate at the intersection of finance, technology, and data-translating complex infrastructure dynamics into clear, actionable business insights. We are looking for an enthusiastic finance analyst with a data driven mindset, modeling capabilities, and strong inter-personal skills.

** MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES*
* + Develop scenario-based financial and business models, with an emphasis on product level insights

+ Perform competitive analysis, pricing, and cost modeling for NPI (new product introduction)

+ Link business strategy to financial reporting at various levels (from a discrete service to overall offerings) using Key Performance Indicators and goal setting

+ Understand and influence investment decisions through detailed financial analysis

+ Drive overall gross margin optimization efforts through deep analysis of the various business, financial, and other operational drivers

+ Own all financial ROB activities (such as planning and budgeting cycles) in line with corporate and business requirements

+ Participate and contribute to broader Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) to ensure capacity investments are made at the right place, right time, and are the right size

+ Embed deeply with engineering leaders and their teams and become their trusted advisor

+ Drive policies and procedures that monitor and support the organization's operational and business objectives

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** Responsibilities*
* ** PREFERRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE*
* + Bachelor's degree with 8+ years finance experience. MBA a plus

+ Knowledge of Cloud Technology and Infrastructure and/or experience supporting engineering preferred but not required

+ Excellent communicator that can work cross functionally (engineering, finance, supply chain, operations, etc.) and with all levels of the organization

+ Results driven, and able to translate ideas into operational plans and achieve valuable results

+ Track record of using data insights to help drive decision-making

+ Strong collaboration skills with the ability to influence others without direct authority

+ Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty in a business that evolves at a hyper pace

+ Excellent analytic and critical thinking skills with a strong attention to detail

+ Self-directed and proactive with ability to multi-task and take ownership of work

+ Familiarity with AI-driven tools and the ability to leverage advanced prompting techniques to enhance reporting, dashboards, and financial insights

** About Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI):*
* Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a modern, high-performance cloud platform built to run any workload-enterprise, cloud-native, and AI-securely and  delivers consistent performance, strong security, and cost efficiency for everything from mission-critical applications to data-intensive and next-generation workloads.

As a distributed cloud, OCI spans public regions, customer data centers, and multicloud environments, giving organizations the flexibility to run applications wherever they…